Bosniak - Activist | August 8, 1925 - October 19, 2003
We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.
Alija Izetbegovic
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Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.
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To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
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I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
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It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.
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All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
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The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
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We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.
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All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
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In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
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Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.
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History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.
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